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Canek Peláez Valdés writes: |
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> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> Recently, PulseAudio got installed. Seems like gnome-settings-daemon |
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>> version 3 no longer has the pulseaudio use flag, so it wants pulseaudio, |
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>> which needs alsa-plugins built with the pulseaudio use flag. I wouldn't |
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>> mind using PulseAudio, but ist starts automatically when I play movies, |
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>> and I get no sound output in mplayer or VLC. And there are weird side |
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>> effects, sometimes playback stops, I have to make it run again by |
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>> skipping back and forward. Sometimes videos play much faster than normal. |
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> Is MPlayer using PulseAudio? Maybe if it did, the problem would go |
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> away; I have this in my ~/.mplayer/config: |
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> ao=pulse |
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> For sure, VLC has an option to use PA by default also. |
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Oh, I think it does, but there was no sound output. Sorry for not |
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mentioning this. I had to switch manually to another sound device, HDA |
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ATI something, I cannot look now because I am not near my desktop PC. |
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If it would just work, then I could make my players use it if they don't |
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already. But what about old applications like Quake3, will they still work? |
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>> So I would like to get rid of it. Is this possible? I don't really use |
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>> Gnome, but I like to have it to see how it develops. And I wouldn't like |
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>> to remove it just because of a sound problem. |
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> GNOME 3 depends (strongly, I think) on PulseAudio; you don't say which |
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> version of GNOME are you using, but in GNOME 2 PA was optional. |
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GNOME 3. I don't use it, but I wanted to look a little into its desktop |
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philosophy. |
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>> Maybe the PulseAudio problem is the same as I had with ALSA, I have two |
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>> internal cards, and I had to tell ALSA not to prefer the SPDIF one. |
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>> Maybe I have to do the same with PulseAudio, but I do not know how. |
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> Try media-sound/pavucontrol; you can select which card the sounds goes |
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> through, and which output to use (HDMI, for example). |
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Thanks, I just installed it. It shows the HDMI device on top, and only |
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this on has the green checkbox enabled. Maybe simply activating the |
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analog port will make it run. I'll see this in a week days when I'm back |
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at my PC. |
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>> And |
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>> the weird playback effects are spooky, I'd prefer to keep things as they |
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>> are, at the moment I'm happy with plain ALSA. |
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> I don't think it is possible to uninstall completely PA in GNOME 3; I |
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> remember it was possible in GNOME 2. |
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It got installed when I emerged GNOME 3, but until end of march |
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alsa-plugins was not installed. Then pulseaudio went from 1.1-r1 to |
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1.99.2, since then it needs the alsa-plugins package, and my trouble |
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started. |
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>> And what is starting the pulseaudio process? I can kill it, but it comes |
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>> back the next time I run mplayer. Is there a way to just disable it? |
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> If I recall correctly, the GNOME session manager will keep starting PA |
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> if the daemon dies. |
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Maybe I had a GNOME session running in parallel? I don't think so, but |
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I'm not sure. |
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Thanks for the input on this, |
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Wonko |
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